Just to elaborate ... Storage names such as "024B-65A9" are volume serial numbers of that SSD, that are assigned when an SSD (or SD Card) is formatted. If you were to reformat that card, it would be a different serial number, albeit of the same format ( xxxx-xxxx, with every character being either an uppercase letter A–Z or a digit 0–9 ). These numbers are handed out by the operating system after format, and cannot be changed. This is something completely different from the name that one can give a storage device and (in Windows) again something different from a windows share name. Note that it isn't only flash media that has a volume serial number, it's very single storage device formatted under Windows. On a Windows machine, open a CMD shell and look at any connected storage device, including the C: drive — do a "dir" of that drive and you'll see its xxxx-xxxx volume serial number at the top of the directory listing. In my case, my volume serial number is "024B-65A9" while my disk name is "990PLUS4" ... And this is where things become even more confusing (for lack of standards) ... When I browse to the Eversolo via the network, my SSD is shared to the network under the name "024B-65A9". In the Eversolo Files app, the disk shows as "990PLUS4". The limitation here is Android. Contrary to Windows where you can give an SSD a self determined sharename, Android simply picks the volume serial number and that's it .. No way to change that. Note: The volume serial number thing goes all the way back to the early DOS days. It was there when the original IBM PC was released in 1981. Still there 40 years later, lol.
Thanks, this is a very useful description. I had thought that I mucked up by not choosing a more user friendly name when I first starting burning to the SSD. I’m wondering if what I’m seeing is just a copy of the root directory serial number you mention as the first file I started burning to, if that makes sense, or if it is really the unchangeable root directory. I’m actually not sure why I’m spending time on this, since it really does not matter to my use case. I generally go in album view. Inquiring minds….
